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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that's disgraceful and rather out of character given his good work on eg Scientology. Doesn't he see that Tervery is part of the Russo-ChristoFascist hybrid warfare playbook?

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d

This is the Lib Dem reporter not the serial killer ot the Scots politician. The only trans reference I find is his praising the trans woman war reporter in Ukraine. You may have better information.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d

The Girl Who Was Thursday.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d

That's ok. We all sometimes get carried away. I have deleted so many posts down the years.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, wasn't there a dossier a while back on the difficulty of infiltrating us?

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d

The Attorney General of Texas has ordered an undercover investigation for terrorist conspiracy of anti-fascist and trans groups. The forcefem fiction practically writes itself...

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 2d

Good man on this issue...

johnsweeneyroar @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been appointed to be the local government correspondent of @thenerve_news covering the Russian Spy Party - Нет-нет-нет. Это не «Русская шпионская партия». Это «Реформа Великобритании». Извините за путаницу .

Read @thenerve_news for the latest on @reformparty_uk.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 8d

I don't.

Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 8d

Who is 'they' in that question please?

You really need to rephrase that so you don't seem to impute collective responsibility or imply that solidarity is conditional on reciprocity.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 8d

An excellent LRB piece by the late Connor Gearty which sets the For Women Scotland judgement in a broader context of the current UK Supreme Court walking back all uses of the HRA to limit regressive state power and promote extension of human rights.

He will be missed

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

Demo against Digital ID and surveillance state at Angel. A lot of honking in support.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

The first of many to get caught, I hope. Too many people in public life have taken money from foreign powers to act in ways that harm us all.

Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

In a war with Nazis, Stalinists, anarchists and Church and King Tories fight alongside each other as they did in the French Resistance and settle other things once the Nazis are done for.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

More joy in heaven over a sinner who repents...

At this point I'll cut some slack for all sorts of people with terrible records depending on where they stand now and deal with their past offences later.

As JFK said, forgive your enemies but keep a.list of their names.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

Get a RADAR key now.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

He will have to abolish GRCs to make that practical and that means pulling out of the ECHR and that means losing the Good Friday Agreement and any concessions from the EU.

I'm not saying he won't do o all that, by the way

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

Farage opposes it vocally because his base dislikes it but will use it in a Draconian fashion if in power.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

My poem about Gallus' mistress.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

...while being pretty effectively brutal to artists who stepped out of line. We remember what happened to Ovid. We have no knowledge of the works of Gallus who was condemned to utter oblivion for some sort of political challenge.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

This is an excellent thread on how the brilliance of Vergil is closely tied to his ambivalence about power and success. It can be argued that the effectiveness of Octavian/Augustus was that he tolerated that level of ambivalence towards his autocratic rule from great artists.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15d

If you view the Aeneid simply as Vergil writing self-insert fan-fic, you are missing the complexity of the poem.

Vergil tasked with writing *the* definitive version of Rome's founding myths at the dawn of a new autocracy whose autocrat claims direct descent from Aeneas and this is what he writes!

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15d

Ian Dunt being excellent - if on Substack - about Starmer's version of ID cards as an example of the folly of making concessions to racist populism.

substack.com/@iandunt/not...

ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea

Many people I admire believe firmly in ID cards, or have grown to accept them. This is why they're wrong.

substack.com

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 16d

But it worked for me. When I first read it, I didn't know it was her and liked it for what it was.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

I am aware of my singular good fortune in that not only am I av76 year old trans woman, but that a significant chunk of the trans peer group I knew in my 20s are still here as well.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

To be accurate, I said that Deadly Hallows did a decent job of drawing together plot threads, CUCKOO'S CALLING was a decent Allingham pastiche and CURSED CHILD was an adequate vehicle for performances and practical stage effects.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

The thief condemned to death gets a year's reprieve by offering to reach the Sultan's horse to sing. Asked by a sceptical friend, he explains
'the sultan might die, I might die or maybe the horse will sing.'

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